# \[Not a bug\] No extra mana for Medal of Anu - bug or feature? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [August 7, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305 "2020-08-07T19:49:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smiling\_Spectre1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/smiling_spectre1/32/7204_2.png) [@Smiling\_Spectre1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Smiling_Spectre1)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/1 "2020-08-07T19:49:02Z")
**Platform, device version and operating system:** Windows 10 x64 **Screenshot or image:** Mechanist, no medal of Anu ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/3/b/3bfae127aa5347032b40246fe1c8245bf238c884.jpeg) Mechanist, with medal of Anu ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/3/7/37a9afd5b49dc018616c0ccf5846cb10e628f642.jpeg) **What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened:** When I see “20% of starting mana” in the Anu description, I take it as “extra +20% of starting mana”. As screenshots clearly shows, it’s mere “20%”. So if I have more than 20% from the other sources already (i.e. 50% for mechanist trait), medal does nothing. Is it expected behavior? **How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?** Well, always, I beleive. I just farmed for the first my medal, ony to discover that it’s useless. **Steps to make it happen again** - Equip any troops or effects that have more than 20% mana on battle start. - Equip Medal of Anu. - Enter battle and watch as Anu does nothing. ---
**Author:** ![xolid99](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/xolid99/32/66856_2.png) [@xolid99](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/xolid99)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/2 "2020-08-07T20:11:16Z")
You don’t get an extra 20%, it’s non stackable with any starting mana bonus of any kind. Mech has 50% start, so won’t benefit. Sadly ---
**Author:** ![mitamata](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mitamata/32/10313_2.png) [@mitamata](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/mitamata)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/3 "2020-08-07T20:14:30Z")
It’s expected behaviour (well, intended anyway, not everyone expects it 😉 ) The bonus starting mana from different sources doesn’t stack. The game will apply the highest starting bonus available for each troop, from one source. For example, if you are using Holy St.Astra with her “All Humans start battle with 50% mana” trait and a medal of Anu, then any “Human” troop on your team will start with 50% mana thanks to that trait, while everyone else will start with 20% thanks to the medal of Anu. Similarly, multiple medals of Anu have the same effect as a single medal (20%) and adding another Holy St.Astra to your team will not give 100% mana to the Humans on your team. ---
**Author:** ![Smiling\_Spectre1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/smiling_spectre1/32/7204_2.png) [@Smiling\_Spectre1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Smiling_Spectre1)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/4 "2020-08-07T22:40:41Z")
So they even not cumulative with themselves? How great. Another worthless object in this game. Well, at least now I feel myself less guilty for ignoring it. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Graeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Graeme](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Graeme)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/5 "2020-08-07T23:00:54Z")
Is explained here in the game guides: > **[Medals, Badges and Tokens](https://gemsofwar.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001209275-Medals-Badges-and-Tokens)** > > Collect Tokens from Boss Chests in Explore and use them to create Badges and Medals to enhance your Teams and individual Troops.  > Overview > You can find your Medal collection in the Badges and Medal... Pretty much always a good source of information that can be checked before posting bug reports 😄 ---
**Author:** ![UKresistance](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ukresistance/32/7558_2.png) [@UKresistance](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/UKresistance)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/6 "2020-08-07T23:21:13Z")
> [@Smiling\_Spectre1](#): > > So they even not cumulative with themselves? How great. Another worthless object in this game. > > Well, at least now I feel myself less guilty for ignoring it. > > Thank you. Were you really expecting to be able to start the bomb bots at full mana 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Smiling\_Spectre1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/smiling_spectre1/32/7204_2.png) [@Smiling\_Spectre1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Smiling_Spectre1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/7 "2020-08-08T09:25:23Z")
_shrug_ Why not? It’s quite useless setup against anything higher than L10, because you hardly will be able to use even two full-charged bombots without slipping the initiative. But it _could_ give me faster farming… if it worked, of course. Also, it’s only one such medal (all others are “+X”, not “X”, I checked), and it’s _legendary_ after all. _shrug_ Again: it’s pretty useless then. ---
**Author:** ![Live](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/live/32/40596_2.png) [@Live](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Live)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 10:11am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/8 "2020-08-08T10:11:07Z")
> [@Smiling\_Spectre1](#): > > So they even not cumulative with themselves? How great. Another worthless object in this game. The game is easy enough, thank god they do not stack. ---
**Author:** ![Smiling\_Spectre1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/smiling_spectre1/32/7204_2.png) [@Smiling\_Spectre1](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Smiling_Spectre1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/9 "2020-08-08T12:23:46Z")
Um, as for me, if you don’t want overpowered item, you simply not implementing it. Making hard-to-achieve item that mostly gives nothing is… well, not very good design solution. ---
**Author:** ![awryan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/awryan/32/74650_2.png) [@awryan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/awryan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-no-extra-mana-for-medal-of-anu-bug-or-feature/65305/10 "2020-08-08T15:08:45Z")
> [@Smiling\_Spectre1](#): > > Making hard-to-achieve item that mostly gives nothing is… well, not very good design solution. One word… Xathenos.